I’m always finding great information on the Web and here is something I found from another great parenting site The Blog of P.U.R.E. by Sue Scheff.  We are all working together to give parents and teens the tools they need to live a healthier happier life.

The site is BodiMojo, a site that promotes Health/Nutrition/Fitness for teens. Developed by teens themselves and experts. BodiMojo believes the future of health resides within our ability to provide behavioral motivation and incentives in an increasingly mobile and consumer-oriented world.

Health can be fun, and it can be habit forming.

Teens told us what they want and we listened.  Watch us play: BodiMojo will include music, interactive tools, games, videos, community building, contest, original content, social networking modules, and customized user pages for teens.  And plug us in-BodiMojo will also offer users new technology for fitness tracking and mobile motivation.

The BodiMojo philosophy is simple: Health can be cool

Nutritional experts, health professionals, and fitness gurus - along with our teens participants - will develop articles, information, graphics, videos, newsletters, interactive features and more.

The current site provides information and updates on the development of the full BodiMojo Web site as well as receive original content submissions form teens.  Keep an eye on BodiMojo and our upcoming Virtual User’s Group, Blog, Contests and News.  BodiMojo will launch in 2009.

…a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

BodiMojo will also be partnering with game developers, musicians, technologists, producers, athletes, writers, artists and business people interested in participating in BodiMojo’s mission. Contact us at partners@bodimojo.com.

Let me know what you think of the site, I thinks it’s going to be a great way for teens to be fit and healthy.

Sexting, sending nude photos of yourself to someone through your cell phone.  What are teens thinking…or are they?

It seems with all of this great new technology comes and big responsibility to the parents to educate their teens on what the dangers might be.  It’s not all fun and games.

These are photos that you can’t take back, once they leave your phone and go to another persons phone, they can do what they want with them. Here is another video from the Today Show regarding this topic.

It seems so harmless and fun for teens, until something like this happens.  It’s easy to find information on this subject parents.  Ask your teen what he or she thinks about sex-ting, and then get on the Internet and start doing some research.  Teens might not even think about the consequences.  Ask them what if you or someone you know sends a nude picture to your boyfriend, and you break up and he is not happy about the break-up.  What is the risk there?

It always comes down to it being our responsibility to educate our kids, so we have to be a step ahead them, which is really hard.  My suggestion is always keep an open line of communication with your teen, so that they will keep you informed about what is going on.  Get on the Internet and do the research first when your kids are younger, twelve and below, so that you will know what is going on. Even though new issues pop up everyday.